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Post by 1godzillafan on Mar 14, 2020 20:00:02 GMT -5
Well, with the way things are going, you're probably going to die in a few days along with the rest of us.
Might as well spend four hours watching people fuck until then.
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Post by Deexan on Mar 14, 2020 20:59:07 GMT -5
Well, with the way things are going, you're probably going to die in a few days along with the rest of us. Might as well spend four hours watching people fuck until then. Give this man the Presidency! |
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Post by Dracula on Mar 15, 2020 8:13:54 GMT -5
55. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
 Year: 2012 Release Date: 1/4/2012 Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Writer(s): Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ercan Kesal, and Ebru Ceylan Starring: Muhammet Uzuner, Yılmaz Erdoğan, and Taner Birsel Based on: N/A Distributor: The Cinema Guild Country of Origin: Turkey Language: Turkish Running Time: 157 Minutes Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is a great movie to watch but a hard movie to talk about. Ostensibly it’s just a movie about a group of investigators bringing a homicide suspect out to the Anatolian steppes in search of a body, but talking about the movie entirely in narrative terms kind of misses the point. This is a movie about setting a very specific mood in the way it strings together beautiful and perfectly composed shots of Anatolia at night combined with a humanistic interest in the various people involved with the case. There’s something very Tarkovsky-esque about the shots that Ceylan gets on this landscape and the emotions they elicit. The cinematography is absolutely gorgeous and really captures the mood of what the countryside is like at night. I don’t want to make this sound completely plotless though, there is a narrative here and it does come to a bit of a head late in the film in the sort of “morning after” segment in the town, which manages to still seem to be of one with the film that came before despite being removed from the scenery that defined so much of the rest of the film. This was my entry point into Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s cinema and I wish I has seen it in theaters rather than at home, which probably would have really skyrocketed it up this list, but it’s a movie he had clearly been building toward in his career and he’s taken it as a launching pad from there.
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Post by IanTheCool on Mar 15, 2020 8:54:08 GMT -5
Yeah, my list is going to be must more pedestrian than yours.
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Post by PG Cooper on Mar 15, 2020 9:42:07 GMT -5
62. Django Unchained Because Tarantino's weakest of the decade is still pretty fucking good.
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Post by Neverending on Mar 15, 2020 9:52:44 GMT -5
62. Django UnchainedBecause Tarantino's weakest of the decade is still pretty fucking good. LMFAO! So this means you put The Hateful Eight in your Top 50? Are you suffering from the Coronavirus? |
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Post by IanTheCool on Mar 15, 2020 10:11:50 GMT -5
I have heard that questionable stances on movies is one of the symptoms of COVID.
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Post by 1godzillafan on Mar 15, 2020 10:43:30 GMT -5
In that case, I've had COVID since I was 3.
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Post by PG Cooper on Mar 15, 2020 10:48:00 GMT -5
62. Django UnchainedBecause Tarantino's weakest of the decade is still pretty fucking good. LMFAO! So this means you put The Hateful Eight in your Top 50? Are you suffering from the Coronavirus? Not but I am suffering from Ligma. Ligma balls |
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Post by Dracula on Mar 15, 2020 17:36:09 GMT -5
54. Annihilation (2018)
 Year: 2018 Release Date: 2/23/2018 Director: Alex Garland Writer(s): Alex Garland Starring: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, and Oscar Isaac Based on: The novel "Annihilation" by Jeff VanderMeer Distributor: Paramount Country of Origin: United States Language: English Running Time: 115 Minutes Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 What a weird thing Annihilation is. A movie that was made by a major studio and which received a wide release (in America anyway) but which seems to by and large function as a modernized tribute to an early 70s Soviet art film. Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker is the obvious reference point that any film literate view would go to when viewing the film as both films deal with an isolated and mysterious “zones” where the normal laws of nature are subverted, but Annihilation is a bit less esoteric than that movie and isn’t above adding some creature elements that almost resemble John Carpenter’s The Thing. This is not, however, simply a watered down Hollywood take on a classic film’s formula as it plays things a bit more smart than that. The exact meaning of the film is fascinatingly vague, but it certainly deals in the determination of the individual as well as the rather flawed means by which humanity tends to respond to problems and threats, but you don’t need to dig that deeply in order to enjoy the film. The film’s visual inventiveness is plainly obvious as “the shimmer” produces all kinds of science fiction oddities and then there’s the film’s very trippy finale which is simply one of the best set-pieces of the decade. This is a science fiction movie that critics are going to be puzzling over for a very long time and I certainly hope it gains more and more of a cult following as time passes.
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Post by IanTheCool on Mar 15, 2020 17:38:16 GMT -5
I should watch this again. That bear scene is a stand out.
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Post by PG Cooper on Mar 16, 2020 16:04:47 GMT -5
61. The Shape of Water Because Doomsday hates it so much.
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Post by Doomsday on Mar 16, 2020 16:20:49 GMT -5
Hey, that's a good enough reason as far as I'm concerned.
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Post by Dracula on Mar 16, 2020 17:04:07 GMT -5
53. Amour (2012) Year: 2012 Release Date: 12/19/2012 Director: Michael Haneke Writer(s): Michael Haneke Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, and Isabelle Huppert Based on: N/A Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics Country of Origin: France Language: French Running Time: 127 Minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Michael Haneke is obviously one of the living titans of world cinema but the 2010s have been kind of a lean decade for him. He’s only made two films during that span and only one of them was really successful but it was quite a success indeed. Haneke is known for making brainy and provocative films that seek to make strong but somewhat coded messages about modern society and politics, and that’s basically true of his 2012 film Amour as well but the story at its center is a lot more emotional even if it’s being depicted through Haneke’s unflinchingly cold gaze. The film concerns an elderly couple played by French screen legends Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva who are near the end of their lives and are given one last test when the wife suffers a stroke and begins to deteriorate physically and mentally. Watching this woman at her lowest point and seeing her husband desperately trying to help her is obviously not the most pleasant viewing but there’s a degree of empathy that you don’t necessarily get from some of Haneke’s other films and it probably does say something that the film got a Best Picture nomination from a timid film Academy that likely wouldn’t want much of anything to do with Haneke’s other movies but for whatever reason this movie managed to have crossover appeal despite doing nothing to compromise Haneke’s integrity.
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Post by PG Cooper on Mar 16, 2020 22:20:49 GMT -5
60. Embrace of the Serpent Because as visual experience, as narrative, and as a critique of colonialism, Embrace of the Serpent is rich and layered.
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Post by PG Cooper on Mar 17, 2020 9:07:34 GMT -5
59. Room Because it's a moving cinematic experience with a brilliant performance from Brie Larson and subtly skillful filmmaking.
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Post by PG Cooper on Mar 17, 2020 14:49:27 GMT -5
58. Little Women Because in addition to being, by far, the best film adaptation of Alcott's novel, this is also a delightful piece of filmmaking that went way beyond what I ever expected a Little Women could do for me.
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Post by Neverending on Mar 17, 2020 15:03:13 GMT -5
Not sure how I feel about that poster.
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Post by PG Cooper on Mar 17, 2020 15:09:47 GMT -5
Not sure how I feel about that poster. It ain't great, but most of the ones that google were putting out were way too big. I did debate putting the one that photoshops Stuart Little on Jo's shoulder but I couldn't pull the trigger. |
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Post by PG Cooper on Mar 17, 2020 17:42:56 GMT -5
57. Gone Girl Because even if this movie was bad - which it decidedly isn't - David Fincher's commentary track would be a shining example of dry comedy.
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Post by Neverending on Mar 17, 2020 17:45:44 GMT -5
Shitty poster
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Post by Deexan on Mar 17, 2020 17:46:50 GMT -5
Looks about right for the Frenchies.
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Post by Neverending on Mar 17, 2020 17:50:35 GMT -5
Looks about right for the Frenchies. Nah |
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Post by PG Cooper on Mar 17, 2020 17:56:34 GMT -5
Looks about right for the Frenchies. Nah That poster is great. Imagine going into the movie with that in your mind. What a trip. I'd give good money to into the movie expecting that and get Parasite instead. |
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Post by Dracula on Mar 17, 2020 18:22:17 GMT -5
52. Lincoln (2012)
 Year: 2012 Release Date: 11/9/2012 Director: Steven Spielberg Writer(s): Tony Kushner Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, and Tommy Lee Jones Based on: The book "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Doris Kearns Goodwin Distributor: Touchstone Country of Origin: United States Language: English Running Time: 150 Minutes Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 In the wider film world a movie like Lincoln certainly looks like an “overdog” if you will. On paper everything about a massive Steven Spielberg-directed biopic of an American icon starring Daniel Day-Lewis just screams of Academy wooing bloat that needs to get put down a peg, and yet I find Lincoln to actually be one of the decade’s most tragically under-appreciated films. In some ways I feel like the movie was burdened with a bad title because this really isn’t the Abraham Lincoln biopic that it advertises itself as: it’s set over a short period of time and focuses on a single political event that he was involved in, the passage of the thirteenth amendment abolishing slavery. Lincoln isn’t really the central character either, he’s part of a rather large ensemble that’s filled with many of today’s greatest actors, all of them reciting some really great dialogue written by the great playwright Tony Kushner and focused on the many great divisions that have existed in America since time immemorial. In fact I think this film is in many ways making a very contemporary political statement in that I think it’s something of a stealth defense of Obama from attacks on the left in the way it seeks to show that even our greatest political figures needed to occasionally get their hands dirty and make compromises in order to make good things happen and that judgement by purity test often isn’t warranted.
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